Why don't you use a horse? Horse is a bike that paddles itself. - Dwight from The Office

Perspective and Relativity: Have you ever noticed that everyone driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac. - George Carlin

People are the product of their genes, their upbringing, their environment and their circumstances.

Chains of habits are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. - Warren Buffett

If you buy things you don't need, soon you will be selling things you need.

Its all about mind and matter. I don't mind and you don't matter. - Sidhu

Indecision may or may not be my problem. - Jimmy Buffett

I would rather live with the consequences of my action than inaction. - TV Series Rubicon

Tennis is just basically ping-pong and the players are standing on the table. - Jerry Seinfeld

When everybody is somebody, then nobody is anybody.

On Failure: I understand the sport like this. When one player is better than you, at this moment the only thing you can do is work, try to find solutions, and try to wait a little bit for your time. Last five times (against Djokovic) wasn’t my time. I’m going to wait and I’m going to try a sixth. And if the sixth doesn’t happen, to the seventh. It’s going to be like this. That’s the spirit of the sport. - Rafael Nadal.

Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.’ — Mary Anne Radmacher

Let him who would move the world, first move himself. – Socrates

Never mistake activity for achievement. — John Wooden

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what people say. I just watch what they do. — Andrew Carnegie

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader. — John Quincy Adams

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. – Confucius

Well done is better than well said. — Benjamin Franklin

Bad is never good until worse happens. — Danish Proverb

How can something bother you if you won’t let it? — Terri Guillemets

If you’re going through hell, keep going. — Winston Churchill

This too will pass. — Attar

If you aim at nothing, you’ll hit it every time. — Unknown

Every artist was first an amateur. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. — Ayn Rand

A big shot is a little shot that kept shooting. – Anonymous

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds. — Mark Twain

The only job where you start at the top, is digging a hole. – Anonymous

A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for. — William Shedd

Many men go fishing all their lives not knowing it is not fish they are after. — Henry David Thoreau

The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing. — Steven Covey

Knowledge is power. — Francis Bacon

I realized that it is absolutely impossible, so then I said, let's get started. - Phillipe Petit (Man on Wire)

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it. - Andrew Carnegie

Whining: Whenever we begin to get into that mindset, it's good to remember a piece of Sachin's conversation with Bradman. Sachin told us that he had asked Sir Don how he had mentally prepared for big games, what his routines were. Sir Don said, that well, before a game he would go to work and after the game go back to work. Whenever a cricketer feels a whinge coming on, that would be good to remember.

That the finest of athletes had, along with skill, a few more essential qualities: to conduct their life with dignity, with integrity, with courage and modesty. All this he believed, were totally compatible with pride, ambition, determination and competitiveness. - Don Bradman

An ad-man's view on savings: Savings is just consumerism unnecessarily delayed.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

A champion team will beat a team of champions.

Wag more. Bark less.

Life is far more hectic in a mind driven by reactivity and doubt. A clear passionate purpose helps you achieve more and feel less hectic.

If we offend, it is with our good will that you should think, we come not to offend, but with good will. To show our simple skill, that is the true beginning of our end. - Shakespeare

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge? - Shakespeare

Better three hours too soon than a minute too late. - Shakespeare

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry. - Shakespeare

To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest citizens and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give of one’s self; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived—this is to have succeeded.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. Where there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. Where there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

Larger pants are not a solution for obesity.

The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence.

Do it or Drop it or Delegate it or Defer it.

LAERC - Learn. Acknowledge. Explore. Respond. Check.

There are those who see, those who see when they are shown and those who never see. - Leonardo da vinci.

You can not wake up a person who is pretending to be asleep.

Good judgement comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgement.

Taking Stand - We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion. - Abraham Lincoln

Simplicity - Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Life is suffering and the reason is craving. Don't have cravings, have preference. If your preference works out then good, otherwise, it's life.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

Find three hobbies you love: one to make you money, one to keep you in shape and one to be creative.

Great to have intelligence without artifice; a kindness without excessive sentimentality; humor without frivolousness; ability to inspire rather than awe. - from the Art of Happiness

You get what you get and you don't get upset. - From Daniel Tiger

When deciding what to do, the best choice is often one that's simple but hard.

Don't let the noise of other's opinions drown out your own inner voice.

Programming Quotes

A SQL query walks into a bar, it approaches two tables and says - mind if I join you.

Too many decisions about changes are made by people untouched by the change process.

There is nothing as useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.

A programmer is a person who passes as an exacting expert on the basis of being able to turn out, after innumerable punching, an infinite series of incomprehensive answers calculated with micrometric precisions from vague assumptions based on debatable figures taken from inconclusive documents and carried out on instruments of problematical accuracy by persons of dubious reliability and questionable mentality for the avowed purpose of annoying and confounding a hopelessly defenseless department that was unfortunate enough to ask for the information in the first place. - IEEE Grid NewsMagazine

First, solve the problem, then write code. - John Johnson

Design Principle: Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend first four sharpening the axe. - Lincoln

There are two ways of constructing a software design: one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.

Nine people can't make a baby in a month.

If you can read this, thank a software developer.

There is a difference between bug-free application and production-ready application.

Mark Twain on scrum and agile: The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.

Most of the times, high-level or big-picture usually means "too vague to be actionable".

Generally, the craft of programming is factoring of a set of requirements into a set of functions and data structures. - Douglas Crockford

Why, What else and What if.

The purpose of software engineering is to control complexity, not to create it.

Very simple mechanisms, sufficiently scaled, can end up looking like magic. - From the book Deep Learning by Francois Chollet.

Respect what you have, don't forget to have fun and learn to be happy without necessarily being satisfied. - VVS Laxman